Which of course prompted the internet to write about the event in the voice of Cormac McCarthy.

"She was in the doorway. She had stripped in there and dressed her body for the boudoir, soft ladyclothes baring flesh and something more, down at the forking of her legs. Hard nickelplate steel, the Smith & Wesson. Her hand was on it.Whos crazy."

It sounds more like your "feudal anachronism" just threw out a bill designed to criminalize trivialities. Speaking as an American, I think we could desperately use some feudal anachronism to help protect our freedoms like it just protected yours.

The Lords exists as a 'check and balance' on the government. It can't actively block anything forever these days, parliament can veto it, but it tends to do a great job of pointing out when parliament is trying to do something that is just downright illegal or unenforceable. OK, a lot of the time it's doing that because most of them are lawyers and don't want to have to deal with half baked badly implemented changes to UK law in their day jobs, but it's done a pretty decent job in recent years of stopping some truly crazy things going through.

OK, a lot of the time it's doing that because most of them are lawyers and don't want to have to deal with half baked badly implemented changes to UK law in their day jobs, but it's done a pretty decent job in recent years of stopping some truly crazy things going through.